Morris Minor Ratrod

[christine]

I got both propane and SGS argoshield gas now ..
And picked up a full up ,time expired co2 fire extinguisher for free

[SiC]

Last weekend I got the boot bottom patched up. Horrific stomach bug during the week meant I couldn't finish off during the nice days we've had.

Today, feeling better, I cleaned up the rear end ready for filler to smoothen it over.


While the filler hardened, I removed the filler from the side wing. This was a mistake.

I hate filler.


Fucking despise the stuff


I didn't quite remove all of it as it turns out that whoever repaired this last warped the utter fuck out of it. Or a possible weird accident? No idea. Shadows make it look weird.


Did I say I hate filler? That's partly because I'm even shitter with filler than I am with paint


The phallus shaping wasn't intentional.


Check out the gap on the front door now. The filler was so thick, it went up to the door level. Probably a good inch thick of filler.

You can see the impressiveness of my filler work here too. Tub said to use no less than 600grit. I was down to 120grit, trying to get even a faint level of smoothness. 


I keep saying to myself, no more bloody bodywork projects again.

[paulplom]

Are you using power tools or manual sanding? It looks like a lot of work.

[Guest]

A not intentionally daft question, but what is your Mrs like with icing cakes? She may have a better hand at doing the filling.

[SiC]

A not intentionally daft question, but what is your Mrs like with icing cakes? She may have a better hand at doing the filling.

She's quite* good. Quick search in my photos of some of her previous creations.




Unfortunately there are some health warnings on the tin about the dangers of car filler, which right now makes it too risky to use. Otherwise she'd be far better doing it.

She bans me from using filler and any painting in the house, as she doesn't think my efforts are ever good enough standard

[mercrocker]

Mrs Rocker does all our filling - whether on the interior walls of the house or door bottoms on the Minor. She is also a confectioner and far better at it than me, using much less paste and far fewer "passes" over the work. It is almost smooth enough to paint on when she's done.

Are the health risks not mainly associated with the sanding, rather than application processes? I must admit I hadn't thought to warn her of those.....

[DodgeRover]

I think SiC is just being ultra careful

[Scruffy Bodger]

Less is more with filler. The other thing is that when it starts to harden at all you absolutely have to resist the urge of doing more to it, just leave it alone, don't touch it, let it go off, sand back a bit and smear a bit more over the top.

Your Mrs is definitely better than quite good, people would pay good money for some of those creations, impressive work!

[Arthur Foxhake]

Have you driven it yet?

[Hooli]

Don't be daft, he doesn't finish projects!